This, the 1555 edition of Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica, contains the author's final revisions of the text, along with significant typographical refinements. The printer, Joannes Oporinus, set this edition in larger type (forty-nine instead of fifty-seven lines per page), which required a recutting of all the woodcut initial letters to fit the updated layout. This edition was also printed on heavier paper stock than the edition of 1543

The woodcut illustrations in the Fabrica are frequently ascribed to the workshop/circle of Titian and/or Jan Stephan van Calcar, but the names of the artist or artists responsible for their creation remain unknown

Date from colophon on leaf 2E5v: " Ex Officiana Ionannis Oporini, Anno Salutis per Christum Partae MDLV. Mense Augusto."

2nd folio (3rd ed.), see: Cushing, VI.A.-3

Signatures: a-z⁶ A-V⁶ X1(folded), X2 Y-Z⁶ 2a-2b⁶(2b5+2chi1(folded)) 2c-2z⁶ 2A⁸ 2B-2E⁶.

Illustrated title page; woodcut initials; printed marginalia

Printer's device on leaf 2E6

Includes index

Cushing, H. Bio-bib. of Andreas Vesalius

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.)

Heirs of Hippocrates

Cataloged

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.555.V63D imperfect: a6 and 2E6 wanting. Quarterbound in modern umber goatskin and brown cloth. Title stamped in gilt on the spine. Latin bibliographical inscription on front flyleaf verso. Two early ownership inscriptions struck out on title page, one of which bears the date 1683. BPL embossed stamp on b1. Early marginalia. Acquired Sept. 1863.

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